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Volume 377, Number 2, October II 2001
Page(s) 496 - 498
Section Formation, structure and evolution of stars
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010985



A&A 377, 496-498 (2001)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010985

Research Note

SIDONIE: A gateway for visual double stars studies

D. Le Contel, J.-C. Valtier and D. Bonneau

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Département Fresnel, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France

(Received 19 December 2000 / Accepted 22 June 2001)

Abstract
A database on visual binaries is presented. It contains measurements on 12750 visual binaries with less than 2'' of separation or with large proper motion north of -10 degrees of declination. It contains also bibliographic references and published orbits for 851 stars. The SIDONIE database is implemented on the Web and allows astronomers to prepare new observations, find data to calculate new orbits or obtain statistical information on the stars in the database.


Key words: astronomical data bases: miscellaneous -- stars: binaries: general -- stars: binaries: visual

Offprint request: D. Le Contel, danielle@obs-nice.fr

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